I have taken the time to rank the web comix I am familiar with, so that those of you who are not reading what you should be, will know where to begin. The list includes all comics I’m currently reading, but none of the one’s I intend to read. If eventually I acquire new information, I’ll update this, in theory. All the comic links over to the right are here, except Dino Comics, I haven’t gotten to that one yet. If you disagree with me, that’s fine. If you dunno what to read though you might take one of my suggestions.
I hope you all appreciate this. I mean, for a guy that has a hard time deciding if he’s hungry or not, this was a lot of work.
- Something Positive (awesome, really funny)
- Sam and Fuzzy (very funny, has a Dogbert/Ger character)
- Penny Arcade (A favorite, funny, mostly about gaming and the industry)
- Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles (rude and crude, but very funny if you like that)
- Ctrl+Alt+Del (mostly about games again, I think it’s funny)
- White Ninja (random but undeniably entertaining)
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (No longer dead as of update #2. The random humor is delightful)
- Orneryboy (cool art, little story, funny jokes. Also, he’ll e-mail updates to you if you sign up. Updates about once a week)
- Boy On A Stick and Slither (short and funny, different type of funny than most comics)
- The Order of the Stick (highly D&D related humor, updated twice a week)
- Little Gamers (another about games, duh, pretty funny, sometimes is lacking imho)
- Elftor (crude, immature humor but great, unfortunately the link has been down for several days as of this post, and I’m pretty sure the author has given up new work. Still, I check every day)
- Mac Hall (very good art, updates infrequently but usually pretty funny)
- PvP (constant update, good characters, funny, about gamers/nerds)
- Punks and Nerds (Fairly crude humor, although I admit I find it fairly entertaining. Short so far, updates twice a week, good art, small story)
- Clan BOB (Story driven, good art, some humor at least at the beginning, interesting characters, updated rarely at least recently)
- GPF (constant update, good characters, funny, but not as funny as PvP, about nerds)
- 8-bit Theater (sprites of course, pretty funny normally, especially the old ones)
- Toothpaste for Dinner (random, I like it)
- Sinfest (Weird little comic, updates all the time, pretty funny sometimes)
- A Modest Destiny (constant updates, pretty funny)
- Foxtrot (not technically a “web comic” but still, it’s on the web, and it’s funny)
- WIGU (weird, I like it though)
- Zits (pretty funny, but you could read the newspaper if you prefer)
- Natalie Dee (random, author is the sister of the Toothpaste for Dinner author, many similarities are evident)
- Sluggy Freelance (long, constant updates, story mostly, some funny jokes now and then)
- RPG World (mocks classic RPG’s, funny that way, updates are fairly infrequent though)
- Daily Suppository (think it’s done, but I still thought it was worth reading back in the day)
- A Distant Faith (off shoot of the finished comic Demonology 101 which is a story and art driven comic. It’s finished, and it’s pretty good. I recommend both.)
- Elsie Hooper (story driven, relatively short, entertaining though. About man in a town being attacked by aliens.)
- Niego (Relatively few as of 3-’05, updates twice a week, can have it e-mailed to you, decent art, pretty funny, little story. Might become even funnier in the future.)
- Megatokyo (story driven, some funny, really popular. About two Americans working in Japan to make money to go home, and a bunch of random other stuff.)
- FLEM! (rants from a politically minded guy, kinda dead now.)
- Two Lumps (by FLEM! guy, about two cats, really different from FLEM!)
- Stupid Trek (made by friend, Ben Cowin, and based on stories written by him with contribution by my other friend, Aaron Nelson. It’s pretty funny to me, but I know who all the characters are based on irl. Since most people reading this don’t, I put it lower down. I appear in it… I’m the one with the huge cowlick. Many of the Stupid Trek original stories are available at the site as well.)
- Bob and George (sprites, endless, kinda plot driven, lots of lame jokes)
- Midnight Macabre (done my the Something Positive guy. Only 3 comics in so far so I put it way down here. I expect good things though.)
- Purple Pussy! (horrible, total potty humor, don’t read it)
- Cyberbooty (similar to Purple Pussy!, but less and it might be dead)
I also receive Garfield and Dilbert via e-mail daily. If you want that just give me your e-mail and I’ll hook u up, or search and find it yourself. The Garfield one started coming to me as spam, so it can’t be that hard.
So there you have it. Read them all and you’ll be as cool as me. That’s a lot of links, if some of them don’t work, please just comment or search and figure it out yourself. I also welcome suggestions of other comics to read, although I already have a list. 😛
Enjoy.
(Edit #1: I added Orneryboy… can’t believe I forgot it. Read it! I put it at #7)
(Edit #2: It appears that Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC) is updating again and it is hilarious. Having remembered this I have raised it’s ranking from #11 to #7. I have also added a permant link on the right margin with all the other comic links. They are one panel randomly funny no story comics, so there’s really no excuse not to read them.)
(Edit #3: Added Niego to the #28 spot. I just read it all today on a recommendation from the author or Sam and Fuzzy.)
(Edit #4: Added Punks and Nerds to #14)
(Edit #5: “Elftor will be back in a few days. Just be patient!!” was posted by Elftor’s author on his site yesterday. Also, I added The Order of the Stick to my list at #10.)
(Edit #6: Added Clan BOB. I read it long ago but it stopped, but I found it over Jan Term break on our hold desktop computer and lo and behold it updates every now and then. So it’s on there and I’m checking it regularly again. It’s #16)
(Edit #7: Added Midnight Macabre at #37. I am hoping to be able to bump it up many slots in the future)